It feels quite strange to be writing my leaving speech after 2 1/2 yrs. of loyal service to the company. It’s the longest I have spent at a company and I owe MEC a lot for my training and development. I leave in a position where I can go and further my career in digital if I so wish and for that I pay MEC great tribute.

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However I leave with a horrible taste in my mouth after my working life for the past 8months has been ruined by Greg Shickle.

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Joined MEC in May 2010. Soon after I started to receive continuous praise from Kevin Kirby Account Director and Greg Shickle Head of Performance for my outstanding performance across accounts (mainly Specsavers) Inc. a commendation from Greg to Jason Dormieux about my ability and contribution. I also received high praise from Amy Creasey and Louise Temperley (re general Specsavers performance and securing a PPC turnaround for Colgate inc a 100%+ YoY spend increase).

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October 2011&#13
I decide to hand in my notice and join another agency in order to further my development. Greg while initially cold to my departure rapidly changed tone and started to court me in order to stay.

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January 2017&#13
I retract my notice after Greg promotes me to Senior AM and gives me a substantial pay-rise along with the promise of rapid development.

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However while all seemed well on the surface things were far from ideal in the background.

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Oct-Feb 2011/12&#13
My client load had been nearly trebled from 6 to 16 clients due to the departures of Aoife Bergin and Jacob Knox-Hooke (Brand team).&#13
I was initially asked to help out in order to help service the clients while staff were recruited but I ended up being made the de-facto brand team manager along with my original client list.&#13
The stress and strain took its toll and during late January – early February 2017 my health started to deteriorate rapidly.&#13
I ended up breaking down to Greg that I couldn’t take it anymore and that I was losing my mind under the pressure. Nothing changed although he knew I was beyond stacked.

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Feb 21stI had to go to the doctors due to an imminent breakdown where I was ordered to stay off work indefinitely. I was signed off with Work Related Stress. I ended up needing over 2weeks off in order to recover.

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On my return things went from bad to worse. Greg instead of welcoming me back and looking to make things right, instead attacked me and made me feel an outsider. I was made to feel that I had actually done wrong.

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Soon after my return in early March Greg

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– blocked my 2011 bonus due to&#13
1)”poor performance in 2011″&#13
2) “being given a pay rise and promotion in Jan 2017″&#13
3) “things not working out as recently planned”&#13
4) “being monitored after coming back from illness”

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– Gave me an official company verbal warning for poor performance in 2011

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– Put me on a performance review

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All of this though after&#13
– Praising me regularly throughout 2010/11&#13
– Courting me to stay when i decided to leave&#13
– Promoting me to Senior Account Manager&#13
– Giving me a 15% payrise&#13
– Describing my performance as “outstanding” as late as December 2011 to Anna May when there was a lot of issues due to staff departures&#13
and my ability to step in and manage the brand teams PPC activity…

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The only thing that changed during Feb/March 2017 is that I had to take 2 weeks off work due to work related stress and that Greg was questioned as Head of Department as to why this had happened under his watch and instead of taking responsibility he instead decided to attack me and my reputation in order to discredit my time off and make himself look less liable for blame.

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This type of approach would seem extreme from a decent man but this is Greg the “man” who openly in front of other team members

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– Made jokes about the “Spastic Olympics” (referring to Para-Olympics)&#13
– Openly claimed to be proud “not to have a drop of Jewish blood in him”&#13
– Regularly made sexist and other bigoted remarks&#13
– Took a female colleague out for a drink on the day he interviewed her, then later took her back to the MEC offices that night and had&#13
sexual relations with her in the meeting rooms on the 3rd floor

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The above is all common knowledge throughout the team. This is Greg’s style of leadership and is gross misconduct on many levels. It is hard to fathom that such a man is responsible for the work wellbeing of over 30staff.

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I am writing this message in order to expose these failings and protect others in future. I am far from perfect personally or professionally but I am a good human being who treats people with respect. In 2017 this behaviour is not acceptable and certainly not in a company which touts itself as being all about its people.&#13
Not one thing on this email has been exaggerated or made up. This is my truth to you all.

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No doubt I fully expect the above to be ripped apart but as long as the truth is out there then that’s all I can do.

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Good luck to MEC and all those good people who strive to make her great.&#13
Kieran

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Unfortunately this example highlights what has long been an issue in many professions. It is often seen as ‘part of your apprenticeship’ to work upwards of 100 hour weeks to satisfy an ever increasing workload. Unfortunately, something has to give, and in this case it resulted in damaging and potentially long term health issue for a hard working employee.

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Of course, this is the experience of one person, and MEC global do appear to have a track record of being a positive place to work, with 99.5% of UK employees recently responding that MEC Global is “a great place to work”. As such, I have invited MEC Global to respond to these allegations and will update you all as and when they get back to us.

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As a seminarian with a one volume set of the LOH I hope this comes out before I get ordained so I can simply buy my first 4 volume when the new translaiton comes out. But it probably won’t happen that way.

grammatically, none of those examples are incorrect, but from a social standpoint the use of “he (and/)or she”, “he/she” or “s/he” can erase nonbinary folk. “he (and/)or she” can include bigender folk or intersex folk that are comfortable with using both socially accepted gendered pronouns, but lots of folks are uncomfortable with widely accepted usage of such binary pronouns because it erases their identity and existence. and further justification of the use of such pronouns just contributes to that erasure because then it means people aren’t bothering to listen. kind of sucks.

Lost Symbol is an amazing piece of work!I just couldn’t keep the book down.The way Dan Brown creates curiosity within the reader is fantastic.A fascinating story and one of the most thrilling stories I’ve read so far!

Thanks Jeff.I think their official description of a Politician’s republic is a “polity where all positions are held by politicians”. On the face of it that is a ridiculous definition of a constitutional model: if a non-politician is elected as head of state (take the former President of India, for example) then the country automagically becomes a Crowned republic!?

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I'd be interested to hear how many people viewed the live coverage. I posted it on Fox Nation and several other sites message boards and noticed others had also. The OBOTZ and Obama supporters keep saying there is NO PUBLUC INTEREST, but I beg to differ, everyone I know watched it but as usual, from the MSM including Fox, NOTHING. You could hear a pin drop from their muted silence.

I suggest you rename this article to &quot;Who’s the worst Web User anyone has ever seen?&quot;I’ll admit that not having a back button is slightly annoying. However, by trying to cheat the UI like you did you caused most of the other issues you reported. Geesh, play by the rules.

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perlhaqr,True. I should have specified that I was referring to the argument in general, which was first given by somebody twenty years ago while I was strapping on my Shoei. "A gust of wind'll catch that thing and you'll wreck!"Even a nice, well-made DOT/Snell-compliant open-face helmet can catch a gust under the brim; I have no idea why someone would wear one instead of a full-face, but it's a free country.

If it is true then this is a good news indeed. Although, if that is the case, wouldnâ€™t Microsoft have made a formal announcement already?Anyway, supposed that this rumor is valid, I wonder if there will any trade-off (either significant or minor ones) for increasing the storage space though? Now if there wonâ€™t be any compromise, then Iâ€™ll say that this definitely is a welcoming success,â€¦if formally confirmed by Microsoft, of course. Iâ€™ll wait and seeâ€¦VN:F [1.9.17_1161](from 0 votes)

SjP – I hope that President Obama's term of office plays out like many movies about Presidents. In the movies, they usually get hammered in the beginning … they learn their lessons … and they come back to finish strong. Our nation needs Obama to finish strong…

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For one, you have no idea who I am.And, two for you to single out one person abd think you know them, leads me to believe, you feel so badly about yourself, and are so cowardly that the only way you can ‘mouth off’ is thru a forum because you’re too chicken shit to do it in person.

Best version of skyrim lol, i’m giving you the thumbs up for delusion alone.Portal 2 doesn’t hold a candle to skyrim, batman arkham asylum or mass effect 3(all better on 360) Portal 2 was actually identicle on both consoles except the blurrier 360 visuals(due to fatty gabe ensuring he optimised one version).Face it, the 360 is still hammering the ps3 and bringing up the oldie portal 2 isn’t going to change any of that VN:R_U [1.9.17_1161](from 27 votes)2073

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The Kurds are the only non anti-Christian , non antisemitic people in the middle east , also an independent Kurdistan can function as a buffer between these mutually hostile countries (the Kurds who killed the Armenians were illiterate mercenaries of pseudo religious Ottoman officers).

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sethstorm:"Try to be on-topic and to use something more original."I still get a good chuckle from that one. I haven't used it up yet. You do provide some hilarious images for an active imagination to chew on, but your mother's basement still tops them all.

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ruefully ” Blew the Romney call”. But I do agree with everything you’ve said politically. Still this is a Niners blog and for one I’m very glad you came over here NF.Sooo…you got a call for us on the Slaughter of the Lambs?Ditto for RT BTW; RT?, RT?Nipper? Where the fuck is da nip?

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Regarding the whole NCAA Violations matter, I truly think that the NCAA needs to either be more efficient – and thereby more of a martinet – or become more realistic in their evaluations. While I have absolutely no use for the likes of “Cal-the-Lip”, this current Bledsoe thingy is a waste of time, money, and newspaper ink … The NCAA ought to simply follow the olde adage of “Follow the Money” !!! No $$$, no violation … By $$$ I mean the disbursement of anything by anyone (school, booster, or supplier) to anyone associated with the kid !!!Seems pretty simple and realistic to me !!!

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